Zelensky’s Red Line on Crimea Tied to Political Realities at Home Trending Global News

When the Trump administration proposed a peace plan, which would recognize the Russian rule of the Crimean Peninsula, the Kiev’s response was not a strong and uneven.

By doing this, the Constitution of the country would be violated, Ukraine’s President Volodimier Zelancesi told reporters. This will never happen, he announced, even in exchange for the end of the bloody war, he became away from the disputed region which has been in Russian hands for more than a decade.

Mr. Zelancesi’s red line has a difficult political reality that holds it.

Inside Ukraine, the formal recognition of Russian control of Crimea will be widely seen as a dangerous concession for a duplicate rival and will have a abandonment of Ukrainians still living in the region. It would also expect the reunion of families separated from the 2014 occupation-when many supporters ran away Ukrainian, while their elderly or Russian pro-relatives lagged behind.

“There are not a single politician from Ukrainian who will vote to legalize the occupation of Ukrainian regions,” said Presidential Deputy Chief Costantin Yelisev said. “For members of Parliament, it would be worse than political suicide,” he said.

President Trump on Wednesday expressed nervousness and disappointment at Mr. Zelancesi’s response, Posting on social media This Crimeia was “lost years ago” and suggesting that the Ukrainian leader was pulling the war on a pipe’s dream.

“He can make peace or, he can fight for one and three years before losing the whole country,” wrote by Mr. Trump.

The seizure of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 began when Russian soldiers – wearing masks and seizing any insignia on their uniform – government buildings and military bases.

The operation was mostly bloodless; Ukrainian soldiers withdrew or switched the sides. But that attack accelerated a Russian attempt to capture the region in eastern Ukraine using its army and proxy forces, a struggle, in 2022, in 2022, about 14,000 soldiers and citizens were killed on both sides before the Russian all-out attack, according to the United Nations, a widespread war.

This war continues as the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to move away from the peace process in the last one week. According to Ukrainian officials, on Thursday, the Russian forces launched what was seen as the most deadly missile and drone attack in the Ukrainian capital since last summer, killing at least nine people and injured more than 60.

In the peace talks of arbitration by the United States, Ukraine expected to leave Crimea’s control out of the discussion. It has demanded an immediate ceasefire, freezing the conflict with the existing frontline, as well as a security guarantee against fresh attacks, such as deployment of European peace force or final membership in NATO.

But the Trump administration rejected that approach this week. Its proposal included the acceptance of Russia’s rule in Crimea and prohibition on Ukraine joining NATO. In turn, enmity will be stopped with current front lines.

In private conversation, Ukrainian officials are open to stop the fight on the front line. Given the current pace of Russia on the battlefield, he admitted that the result could take the side of Ukraine.

More important than this, where a ceasefire line falls, Ukrainian officials have said, guarantee that Russia will not use a stagnation to re -organized and rearm for new attacks. Russia has also warned that Ukraine may use a ceasefire, but it has welcomed the American proposal on a large scale.

But the peace talks showed the founder more likely over the Crimean recognition compared to the frontline Trus, stated that Mikhelo Samsas, director of the New Geopolitics Research Network, said, “A research institute in Kiv. “The issue of Crimea is the primary cause of their possible failure,” he said.

Crimea, with a population of about 2 million people, joined the rest of Ukraine in 1991 in voting for independence from the Soviet Union. But the region maintained a close relationship with Russia through its tourism industry, and most of the population was Russian speakers. Russian nationalists claimed the region soon after the Soviet breakup.

Memories of anxation are still raw in Ukraine. According to human rights groups, the recognition of Russian control is also opposed by an organization, an ethnic group that has deep roots on the peninsula and has faced political vengeance according to human rights groups.

“Crimea indigenous Crimean Tatar is the homeland of the people and is an integral part of Ukraine,” wrote the head of Masalis, a council of Crimean Tattars, in the social media post. “Anyone – Under any circumstances – Ukrainian state and Crimean Tatar can decide the fate of Crimea except people.”

Between Ukrainian authorities, interacting on the condition of Crimea is politically risky.

In Kiev, officials recalled that the predecessors signed a lease expansion at a Russian naval base on Crimea in 2010, long before the war began, yet later sued for treason.

And Ukrainians note that recognition will violate the principles of World War II in Europe, which opposes the transfer of borders by force.

Ukrainian Human Rights Advocate Olecasandra Matvichuk said, “The Ukrainian President would never have the right to recognize Crimea as it was confiscated by force as Russia,” said Ukrainian Human Rights Advocate Olecasandra Matvichuk, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.

It is difficult to take public opinion inside Crimea. After Russia’s acquisition, many residents supported social media to join Russia and supported in posts, but reliable voting is rare.

Kaja Kalas, the top diplomat of the European Union, has stated that the block opposed the formal recognition of Russian sovereignty on Crimea. Türkiye has also been a staunch opponent of recognition, for safety concerns about a recognized Russian military appearance in solidarity with the Tatar population and on the peninsula.

During the first term of Mr. Trump, his administration also issued a formal statement opposing the recognition.

The 2018 statement, known as the Crimea Declaration, said the United States would prevent recognition, such as the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia during the Cold War, a policy that reduced the dialect of countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The announcement said, “The United States refuses to recognize the claims of the sovereignty of the Kremlin over the area seized by the force in violation of international law.”

In response to Mr. Trump’s criticism, Mr. Zelansky pointed to a statement in a social media post.

Anna Lukinova Contributed to reporting from Kyiv.